---
title: LTX2 & LTX2.3
description: Run LTX-2 and LTX-2.3 video generation pipelines with SGLang Diffusion.
metatags:
    description: "Deploy and use LTX-2 and LTX-2.3 video generation models with SGLang Diffusion, including one-stage, two-stage, HQ, TI2V, and LoRA examples."
---

import { DiffusionModelTags } from '/src/snippets/diffusion/model-tags.jsx';
import { LTXDeployment } from '/src/snippets/diffusion/ltx-deployment.jsx';

<DiffusionModelTags tags={["video", "text-to-video", "image-to-video", "two-stage"]} />

## 1. Model Introduction

[LTX-2](https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2) and [LTX-2.3](https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2.3) are video generation models from Lightricks. SGLang Diffusion supports the LTX series through native one-stage and two-stage pipelines for text-to-video and image-conditioned video generation.

Use `Lightricks/LTX-2` or `Lightricks/LTX-2.3` as `--model-path`. For two-stage generation, SGLang uses the spatial upsampler and distilled LoRA components from the model snapshot by default. LTX-2.3 also supports the HQ two-stage variant.

<Warning>
**License notice:** LTX-2 and LTX-2.3 are released under the LTX-2 Community License Agreement, not Apache 2.0. The license includes commercial-use restrictions for some entities. Review the [official Lightricks license](https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2.3/blob/main/LICENSE) before production or commercial use; SGLang support does not grant additional model usage rights.
</Warning>

## 2. SGLang-diffusion Installation

Install SGLang with diffusion dependencies:

```bash
uv pip install "sglang[diffusion]" --prerelease=allow
```

For platform-specific setup, see the [SGLang Diffusion installation guide](/docs/sglang-diffusion/installation).

## 3. Model Deployment

This section provides deployment configurations optimized for different LTX pipelines and hardware targets.

### 3.1 Basic Configuration

The LTX series supports one-stage and two-stage pipelines. LTX-2.3 also supports the HQ two-stage pipeline. The recommended launch configuration depends on whether the target GPU can keep both two-stage DiTs resident.

**Interactive Command Generator**: Use the configuration selector below to generate a deployment command. The default selection targets a single NVIDIA H200 with `resident` two-stage mode. For multi-GPU serving, start from the 2-GPU or 4-GPU presets and only change parallelism if you need more memory headroom.

<LTXDeployment />

### 3.2 Configuration Tips

Choose the pipeline class based on the quality and latency target:

| Use case | Pipeline class | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| One-stage generation | `LTX2Pipeline` | Fastest LTX native path. Supports T2V and TI2V. |
| Two-stage generation | `LTX2TwoStagePipeline` | Uses a base stage and a refinement stage. Supported by LTX-2 and LTX-2.3. |
| Two-stage High Quality (HQ) generation | `LTX2TwoStageHQPipeline` | LTX-2.3 HQ path; defaults to 1920x1088 unless you override `--width` and `--height`. |

Feature compatibility:

| Pipeline class | T2V | TI2V (`--image-path`) | LoRA (`--lora-path`) | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `LTX2Pipeline` | Yes | Yes | Yes | One-stage path. Cannot be combined with HQ because HQ is a separate two-stage pipeline class. |
| `LTX2TwoStagePipeline` | Yes | Yes | Yes | Standard two-stage path for LTX-2 and LTX-2.3. |
| `LTX2TwoStageHQPipeline` | Yes | Yes | Yes | High Quality two-stage path for LTX-2.3. Use this instead of `LTX2Pipeline`; it is not a one-stage mode flag. |

For two-stage pipelines, `--ltx2-two-stage-device-mode` controls transformer residency:

| Mode | When to use it |
| --- | --- |
| `resident` | Best latency on high-VRAM GPUs because both DiTs can stay resident. |
| `original` | Closest to the original two-stage switching semantics. |

`snapshot` is kept only as a deprecated compatibility alias for `original` and may be removed after two release cycles; use `original` or `resident` in new configs.

Other deployment flags:

- `--lora-path`: Preload a community LoRA adapter.
- `--lora-weight-name`: Select the exact safetensors file when the LoRA repository contains multiple weight files.

<Note>
For native LTX-2.3 two-stage serving without a user LoRA, `resident` is the fastest high-VRAM path. LTX-2 still applies the distilled LoRA during the stage switch, so `--ltx2-two-stage-device-mode` is mainly an LTX-2.3 optimization. When you pass `--lora-path`, SGLang still applies the user LoRA during the two-stage switch, so use `resident` on H200-class GPUs for enough VRAM, but do not expect the same premerged-stage2 benefit as the no-user-LoRA path.
</Note>

### 3.3 Fast multi-GPU presets

For latency-oriented LTX serving, prefer CFG parallel over sequence parallelism. CFG parallel splits guidance branches across GPUs, while SP/Ulysses is mainly a memory/long-sequence tool for LTX.

| Target | Recommended server flags | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| LTX-2.3, 1 high-VRAM GPU | `--ltx2-two-stage-device-mode resident` | Fastest two-stage setup when both DiTs fit. |
| LTX-2.3, 1 standard GPU | `--ltx2-two-stage-device-mode original` | Lower VRAM than `resident`; use this when H100-class memory is tight. |
| LTX-2, 2 GPUs | `--num-gpus 2 --enable-cfg-parallel` | Fastest verified 2-GPU setup; keep `--dit-layerwise-offload` disabled unless memory is tight. |
| LTX-2.3, 2 GPUs | `--num-gpus 2 --enable-cfg-parallel --ltx2-two-stage-device-mode resident` | Fastest common 2-GPU setup. |
| LTX-2.3, 4 GPUs | `--num-gpus 4 --tp-size 2 --enable-cfg-parallel --ltx2-two-stage-device-mode resident` | Fastest common 4-GPU layout: TP2 inside each CFG branch. |
| Official comparison | `--ltx2-two-stage-device-mode original` | Use this only when matching the original LTX-2.3 stage-switch semantics matters. |

Use `--enable-cfg-parallel` for degree-2 CFG parallel. Use `--cfg-parallel-size` only when you explicitly need a different CFG branch count. If `resident` exceeds available VRAM, keep the same parallelism preset and switch only the device mode to `original`.

On high-VRAM GPUs, add `--text-encoder-cpu-offload false` if text encoding latency matters and you have enough memory.

#### 3.3.1 Two GPUs

```bash
sglang serve \
  --model-path Lightricks/LTX-2.3 \
  --pipeline-class-name LTX2TwoStagePipeline \
  --num-gpus 2 \
  --enable-cfg-parallel \
  --ltx2-two-stage-device-mode resident
```

#### 3.3.2 Four GPUs

```bash
sglang serve \
  --model-path Lightricks/LTX-2.3 \
  --pipeline-class-name LTX2TwoStagePipeline \
  --num-gpus 4 \
  --tp-size 2 \
  --enable-cfg-parallel \
  --ltx2-two-stage-device-mode resident
```

## 4. Model Invocation

### 4.1 Basic Usage

The examples below spell out the current SGLang sampling defaults for reproducibility:

| Model path | Default output | Default frames | Default steps |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Lightricks/LTX-2` | 768x512 | 121 | 40 |
| `Lightricks/LTX-2.3` | 768x512 | 121 | 30 |
| `Lightricks/LTX-2.3` with `LTX2TwoStageHQPipeline` | 1920x1088 | 121 | 15 |

#### 4.1.1 LTX-2 one-stage text-to-video

```bash
sglang generate \
  --model-path Lightricks/LTX-2 \
  --pipeline-class-name LTX2Pipeline \
  --prompt "A quiet coastal town at sunrise, fishing boats moving slowly through golden mist, cinematic camera movement" \
  --save-output
```

#### 4.1.2 LTX-2.3 one-stage text-to-video

```bash
sglang generate \
  --model-path Lightricks/LTX-2.3 \
  --pipeline-class-name LTX2Pipeline \
  --prompt "A quiet coastal town at sunrise, fishing boats moving slowly through golden mist, cinematic camera movement" \
  --save-output
```

#### 4.1.3 LTX-2 two-stage text-to-video

```bash
sglang generate \
  --model-path Lightricks/LTX-2 \
  --pipeline-class-name LTX2TwoStagePipeline \
  --prompt "A handheld shot follows a red tram crossing a rainy city square at night, reflections on the pavement, cinematic lighting" \
  --save-output
```

#### 4.1.4 LTX-2.3 two-stage text-to-video

```bash
sglang generate \
  --model-path Lightricks/LTX-2.3 \
  --pipeline-class-name LTX2TwoStagePipeline \
  --prompt "A handheld shot follows a red tram crossing a rainy city square at night, reflections on the pavement, cinematic lighting" \
  --save-output
```

#### 4.1.5 LTX-2.3 HQ text-to-video

```bash
sglang generate \
  --model-path Lightricks/LTX-2.3 \
  --pipeline-class-name LTX2TwoStageHQPipeline \
  --prompt "A wide cinematic shot of alpine clouds rolling over a mountain ridge, soft morning light, slow aerial camera movement" \
  --save-output
```

#### 4.1.6 Image-to-video with one reference image

Pass one image to `--image-path` for image-conditioned generation:

```bash
sglang generate \
  --model-path Lightricks/LTX-2.3 \
  --pipeline-class-name LTX2TwoStagePipeline \
  --image-path ./inputs/start.png \
  --prompt "The camera slowly pushes forward as the subject turns toward warm window light, subtle natural motion, cinematic" \
  --save-output
```

#### 4.1.7 First-to-last-frame transition with two reference images

Pass two images to `--image-path` for transition-style TI2V. The first image is used as the starting condition and the second image is used as the ending condition.

```bash
sglang generate \
  --model-path Lightricks/LTX-2.3 \
  --pipeline-class-name LTX2TwoStagePipeline \
  --image-path ./inputs/start.png ./inputs/end.png \
  --prompt "A smooth cinematic transition from the first scene into the final scene, dynamic camera motion, motion blur, zhuanchang" \
  --save-output
```

### 4.2 Advanced Usage

#### 4.2.1 Use community LoRAs

Use `--lora-path` to load a LoRA adapter. If the Hugging Face repo contains multiple safetensors files, use `--lora-weight-name` to select the exact file. `--lora-scale` maps to the standard LoRA merge scale and defaults to `1.0`.

The following example uses [`valiantcat/LTX-2.3-Transition-LORA`](https://huggingface.co/valiantcat/LTX-2.3-Transition-LORA):

```bash
sglang generate \
  --model-path Lightricks/LTX-2.3 \
  --pipeline-class-name LTX2TwoStagePipeline \
  --lora-path valiantcat/LTX-2.3-Transition-LORA \
  --lora-weight-name ltx2.3-transition.safetensors \
  --prompt "A low-angle tracking shot moves through a foggy forest road. The camera rises above the treetops and transitions into a clear view of a snowy mountain peak under bright sunlight, zhuanchang" \
  --save-output
```

You can combine the Transition LoRA with two reference images:

```bash
sglang generate \
  --model-path Lightricks/LTX-2.3 \
  --pipeline-class-name LTX2TwoStagePipeline \
  --image-path ./inputs/start.png ./inputs/end.png \
  --lora-path valiantcat/LTX-2.3-Transition-LORA \
  --lora-weight-name ltx2.3-transition.safetensors \
  --prompt "A fast cinematic transition from the first image to the second image, whip-pan motion, atmospheric lighting, zhuanchang" \
  --save-output
```

<Note>
Some community LoRAs only include weights for transformer blocks. In that case, SGLang logs a concise coverage summary and leaves unmatched LoRA-capable layers on the base model weights. This is expected when the adapter format intentionally omits those layers.
</Note>

## 5. Practical Tips

- Use `--pipeline-class-name LTX2TwoStagePipeline` as the default LTX two-stage quality path.
- Use `--pipeline-class-name LTX2TwoStageHQPipeline` when you want the HQ path and have enough VRAM for larger outputs.
- Use `--ltx2-two-stage-device-mode resident` on high-VRAM GPUs if latency matters more than memory usage.
- Use `--ltx2-two-stage-device-mode original` when comparing against official two-stage behavior.
- Keep `--width` and `--height` aligned with the target model resolution; for LTX models, these are output video dimensions.
